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* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'' features the protagonist in a bathroom overhearing others non-malevolently referring to her as "that cancer girl".

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* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'' features the protagonist in a bathroom overhearing others Eli non-malevolently referring to her as "that cancer girl".leukemia girl" and saying "Remember her from January? She looked like she'd been nuked in a microwave. Was that sickening or what?" Macy, the popular girl, made Eli apologize to Claire, which is how Macy and Claire became best friends.
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* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'':
** Shiraishi's trio of friends have their last present-time appearance when they badmouth Odagiri in the girls' bathroom... only for Odagiri to appear from a stall. Not that she cares much - she simply insults them back and leaves ([[BreadEggsMilkSquick without washing her hands]]).
** The trope also forms the {{Bookends}} of Kaori's character arc and shows how she changes from a bully who escalates the overheard insults to a BullyHunter who saves a girl from the overheard insults.

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* in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':

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* Inverted on ''Series/{{ER}}''. Although two people are musing about a coworker's erratic behavior, they are genuinely concerned, rather than being derisive. But when said coworker drops a syringe, thus revealing her presence in the bathroom, it's ''she'' who is embarrassed, realizing that it now looks like her behavior is the result of drug use. (it isn't)

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* Inverted on in ''Series/{{ER}}''. Although two people are musing about a coworker's erratic behavior, they are genuinely concerned, rather than being derisive. But when said coworker drops a syringe, thus revealing her presence in the bathroom, it's ''she'' who is embarrassed, realizing that it now looks like her behavior is the result of drug use. (it isn't)



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Compare RightBehindMe (another situation where Charlie and Bob are unaware of Alex's presence), and WhatYouAreInTheDark (a person's private behavior differs from their public behavior). Sometimes turns out to be OutOfContextEavesdropping.

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Compare RightBehindMe (another situation where Charlie and Bob are unaware of Alex's presence), and WhatYouAreInTheDark (a person's private behavior differs from their public behavior). Sometimes turns out to be OutOfContextEavesdropping.
OutOfContextEavesdropping. Compare and contrast NextStallShenanigans.
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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Phoebe pulls Rachel into a dressing room cubicle to ask why she's trying to avoid spending time with Joey's new girlfriend Charlie. Rachel eventually admits it's because she's developed a crush on Joey. When Rachel goes to leave she sees Charlie walking out of the next cubicle and is horrified she might have heard everything. When she finally works up the courage to talk to Charlie it turns out that Charlie ''did'' hear the conversation, but misunderstood and thinks it's ''Phoebe'' who has the crush on Joey.
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* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': A girl hiding a bathroom stall who overhears two cheerleaders insulting her becomes a vital plot point in "Do or Die".

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* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': A girl hiding a bathroom stall who overhears and overhearing two cheerleaders insulting her becomes a vital plot point in "Do "[[Recap/CSINYS07E17 Do or Die".Die]]".
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* ''WebComic/MarryMyHusband'': In the original timeline, Jiwon was tricked into attending her class reunion by Sumin, and eventually she ended up hiding in the bathroom; while in the stall, she overheard Jiye and her friends insult her for supposedly being a bully and a FalseFriend to Sumin, causing her to cry and stay in there long after eveyone else leaves. In the new timeline, she once again hides in the stall and listens to them insult her; this time, however, she confronts them and chews them out over how they blindly believed Sumin's lies.
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* The titular character of ''Literature/AudreyWait'' overhears her ex-boyfriend's band's manager trash-talking them in a bathroom stall just before she goes live on television. As Audrey [[FirstPersonSmartass comments in her narration]], [[LampshadeHanging it's easy to ask why a character on TV or in a book that overhears something like this doesn't do anything about it,]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but in real life, you'd probably freeze up and be unable to do much about it, either]].

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* The titular character of ''Literature/AudreyWait'' overhears her ex-boyfriend's band's manager trash-talking them in a bathroom stall just before she goes live on television. As Audrey [[FirstPersonSmartass comments in her narration]], [[LampshadeHanging it's easy to ask why a character on TV or in a book that overhears something like this doesn't do anything about it,]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but in real life, you'd probably freeze up and be unable to do much about it, either]].either.
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* In the book ''katie.com'', Katie hears two girls gossiping about her in the bathroom, one girl claiming that she saw a positive pregnancy test belonging to her, and another claiming Katie aborted the child with a coat-hanger. (Neither of which are true, of course.)

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* In the book ''katie.com'', ''Literature/KatieDotCom'', Katie hears two girls gossiping about her in the bathroom, one girl claiming that she saw a positive pregnancy test belonging to her, and another claiming Katie aborted the child with a coat-hanger. (Neither of which are true, of course.)
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Cool Loser cleanup, has been renamed to Unconvincingly Unpopular Character and is a YMMV audience reaction.


* ''Film/ShesAllThat'': [[JerkJock Dean Sampson]] tells his friends of his plan to score with [[CoolLoser Laney]], unaware that her best friend Jesse is in the stall listening.

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* ''Film/ShesAllThat'': [[JerkJock Dean Sampson]] tells his friends of his plan to score with [[CoolLoser Laney]], Laney, unaware that her best friend Jesse is in the stall listening.

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